Friday, October 14, 2011

The following videos are from when we talked about the Populists and the Progressives. You must watch these videos completely to be able to answer the questions.

Populists Video 1

What did people do after the civil war?2. What happened to the price of crops then?3. What happened to farmers as a result?4. What happened to their costs?5. How did the banks react to their plight?6. What party was born as the farmers got angry?7. What were the things they pushed for?8. What happened in 1893?9. What happened to the farmers after the crash?10. What was the big political debate during that time?11. What did the farmers want?12. Who was the democrat in the 1896 election?13. Who was the Republican?14. Who was elected?15. What did this mean for the populists?

Intro Populist Video

1. How does this video compare to the last one? 2. Which one did you learn more from?3. What information did you learn from this video that you did not get in the first one?

Progressives Video 1

1. What was the gilded age?2. What wealthy families enjoyed the fruits of big business?3. What happened to most families during that time period?4. What did People begin to do as the 20th century neared?5. What was born out of these efforts?

Progressive Video 2

What helped the progressive movement gain momentum?2. Where did the term muckrakers come from?3. What did Upton Sinclair write about?4. What did Ida Tarbell write about?5. What did Jacob Riis write about?6. What did Lincoln Steffens write about?7. What did these books cause in the minds of the people?8. What did Robert LaFolletee do to help his states standard of living?9. What did the citizens of Galveston, TX do after their city had been destroyed by a giant wave? 10. How many cities followed their lead?11. How did the city council government?12. What did this system do for the people?13. What election reforms were pushed through by Progressives in Oregon?14. What did the 17th Amendment do?15. What did Rockefeller say about business?16. What kind of laws start to get proposed now in regards to children?17. What did Progressives advocate should be done about big business?18. When did the Federal Minimum wage finally get passed?19. What happened 2 the Triangle Shirtwaist Company garment factory?20. What did the Women’s Christian Temperance Union try to get accomplished?21. What did Jane Adams start?

Friday, October 7, 2011

The following videos and questions are from when we watched Frontier House the second day. Again, just watch the minutes that are specified so you don't have to watch the boring parts.

Episode 2 part 1:

Part 11. What does the video say about the image of wagon trains?2. What does the scenery look like out in Montana?3. How far apart are the home sites?4. What kinds of things were in the first cabin that was completed?5. How much of the cabin was completed for the second family?6. How will the younger guy have to build his cabin?7. What was the housing solution for the families that didn’t have a cabin built?8. How do they build the cabins?9. How many trees were required to build the cabins?10. How did they cook food?11. How did they dry clothes?12. How did they make sure the cows didn’t wander away?13. How was the building of the log cabin going for Nate? 14. How did he get it built faster?

Episode 6 Part 1

1. How do the people look different than they did at the beginning? 2. How is life different for men and women?3. What does this do for the relationship between the husband and wife?4. What happens to the women’s mental state?5. How do they transport hay?6. Who were often the first to break social barriers between men and women?7. How much earlier were the young women able to get the right to vote before the women in the East?

Episode 6 Part 2

8. What do they need to do for the assessment? (What do they need to have ready for the winter?)9. How do they feel about leaving?10. What meat do they use for the fair?11. Why did Adrian make a flag?12. How long did it take for Montana to get their stars added to the flag?13. What do they do at the fair for fun?14. What awards do they give out?15. What kinds of things do they assess to see how they did?16. What did they do the best at?17. What kinds of structures did they build?18. Why was pickling important?19. What were some of their problems with their preparations for winter?20. How did they make the bed work?

Episode 6 Part 3

21. Why according to the younger woman do they find abandoned cabins with breakfast dishes on the table?22. How was the wife’s opinion of her experience different than her husbands?23. How did the families eat dinner?24. What did they eat as their final meal?25. Do they want to leave at the end? Why?

Below are the videos that went with the questions of Frontier House. Some of the videos have more information than we watched in class. You will have to figure out where we started watching by clicking on the video on the place where I specified for you. Remember I cut out the boring parts in class.

Frontier House Video Ep. 1 part 2

Episode 1 Part 21. What year are the families going to go back to and what important thing happened in this year?2. Where are they going?3. How much land was given to Homesteader’s under the Homestead Act and who could apply?4. What percentage of the homesteaders did not stay out on the land for the required 5 years to get their land?5. What were the roles of the men and women?6. Give three skills that were important to the homesteaders.7. What would be their first task upon arriving?8. What livestock are important to the families in the period?9. What role do the kids play on the frontier?10. What was the average life expectancy in the 1880’s?11. What is their only pain killer?12. What did settlers use instead of toilet paper?13. Why didn’t a good woman use make up in the 1880’s?

Frontier House Video Ep. 1 part 3 (Food Killing Animals)

Episode 1 part 314. Where did the pioneers get their meat?15. How could you kill a chicken on the frontier?16. How do the people react to the killing of the chicken?17. What kinds of supplies or things that would be used in the house?18. How long is the food supposed to last the people?19. Why is the milk cow important to the people on the frontier?

Frontiner House video Ep. 1 part 4 Phsycial transformation and wagon train journey (for some reason this video would not imbed into the blog. Please, highlight the link and open in a new window)

http://youtu.be/XXwHOXRI9H0

Episode 1 Part 420. What attracted Homesteaders to the land out west?21. What kind of situation is the first family in when they arrive?22. What kind of situation are the second guy and his Dad in when they arrive?23. What kind of situation is the third family going to be in when they arrive?24. What does their appearance look like when they dress up to take their pictures?

Frontier House Video Ep. 1 part 5 Final part them together

Episode 1 part 528. How did the Homesteaders travel to their destinations?29. What is their biggest challenge before they leave?30. What beverages were available to the pioneers?31. What happens to one carriage as they start out?32. Since most of them can’t fit on the wagon, how do most of them get to their destination?33. What is their second challenge? How do they solve the problem?34. What do they try to do for dinner? Are they successful?35. What happens to Conner?

I am going to be using this blog to post the videos that I use in class from youtube and some of my lessons that uses media. Since Edline is limited in what i can post I am using this format to help you all out. Not all of the videos we watch in class will be posted on this site, due to the fact I only have some of them on VHS (Such as Roots). Hopefully this will help you become more successful in class and will provide you with an oppertunity to watch the videos we watch if you are sick.